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Family benefits

  • Debate Pack

    Distributional Effect of Proposed Reforms to Tax Credits

    Tuesday, 27 October, 2015

    This page provides background to the Backbench Business debate, Distributional Effect of Proposed Reforms to Tax Credits, scheduled for Thursday 29 October 2015.

    • Debate Pack
    • Benefits policy
    • Family benefits
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Welfare Reform and Work Bill 2015-16 Committee Stage Report

    Monday, 26 October, 2015

    This Commons Library Briefing Paper summarises debate and amendments to the Bill during its committee stage in the House of Commons.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Children and families
    • Family benefits
    • Housing and planning
    • Housing benefits
    • Rented housing
    • Work and incomes
    • Working age benefits
  • Debate Pack

    Effect of changes to welfare benefits

    Friday, 09 October, 2015

    This page contains Library briefings and external reports and provides background information for the Westminster Hall debate, Effect of changes to welfare benefits, scheduled for Wednesday October 14 at 2.30pm.

    • Debate Pack
    • Benefits policy
    • Family benefits
    • Housing benefits
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Welfare Reform and Work Bill [Bill 51 of 2015-16]

    Thursday, 16 July, 2015

    This House of Commons Briefing Paper provides background to the Welfare Reform and Work Bill’s provisions; summarises the key measures; and includes relevant comment. The Bill is scheduled to receive its Second Reading on 20 July 2015.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Children and families
    • Family benefits
    • Home ownership
    • Housing and planning
    • Housing benefits
    • Rented housing
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Work and incomes
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Summer Budget 2015: A summary

    Friday, 10 July, 2015

    This note presents a summary of the Summer Budget 2015. This note provides an overview of the main Budget measures (see below), along with analysis of the forecasts, changes to the fiscal rules, changes to welfare, the National Living Wage, and public spending.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Economic policy
    • Economic situation
    • Family benefits
    • Higher education
    • Housing and planning
    • Housing benefits
    • Pensions
    • Public spending
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Tax
    • Work and incomes
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Background to the July 2015 Budget

    Friday, 03 July, 2015

    This note sets out the background to the July 2015 Budget, the first Budget of the current Parliament.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Economic policy
    • Economic situation
    • Family benefits
    • Housing benefits
    • Pensions
    • Public spending
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Tax
    • Working age benefits
  • Debate Pack

    Opposition Day Debate on Tax Credits and Support for Working Families

    Wednesday, 01 July, 2015

    This page provides background information for the Opposition Day Debate, Tax credits and support for working families, on Wednesday 1 July 2015.

    • Debate Pack
    • Benefits policy
    • Family benefits
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Measures to limit migrants’ access to benefits

    Wednesday, 17 June, 2015

    Following an article by the Prime Minister’s in the Financial Times on 27 November 2013 in which he said he shared concerns about the impact of lifting transitional restrictions on the right of Romanian and Bulgarian right to work in the UK from 1 January 2014, the Government has introduced a raft of measures “to tighten up our EEA migration rules to ensure our welfare system is not taken advantage of.”

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Family benefits
    • Housing benefits
    • Immigration
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • The EU
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Further proposals to restrict migrants’ access to benefits

    Friday, 20 March, 2015

    In his keynote speech on immigration on 28 November 2014, the Prime Minister set out plans to secure agreement on changes to European law on free movement of persons in order to allow the UK to, among other things, deny EEA migrants in-work benefits for four years and prevent Child Benefit being paid for children living abroad. Proposals to further restrict EEA migrants’ access to benefits have also been put forward by Labour and by the Liberal Democrats.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • EU law and treaties
    • Family benefits
    • Immigration
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • The EU
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Benefit Entitlement (Restriction) Bill 2014-15

    Thursday, 27 November, 2014

    The Benefit Entitlement (Restriction) Bill is a Private Members’ Bill presented by Christopher Chope. The Bill makes provision “to restrict the entitlement of non-UK Citizens from the European Union and the European Economic Area to taxpayer-funded benefits.” The Bill provides that the restrictions on entitlement are “notwithstanding the provisions of the European Communities Act 1972.”

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • EU law and treaties
    • Family benefits
    • Housing benefits
    • Immigration
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • The EU
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Statistics on migrants and benefits

    Thursday, 27 November, 2014

    This note collates the main data available on UK benefits paid to migrants or in respect of children living abroad.

    • Research Briefing
    • Family benefits
    • Immigration
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Cold Weather Payments for winter 2014/2015

    Thursday, 13 November, 2014

    Cold Weather Payments are made from the Social Fund to certain recipients of Income Support, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Universal Credit or Pension Credit during periods of very cold weather. The amount is £25 a week for eligible benefit claimants.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Energy
    • Family benefits
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Impact on the UK of Scottish independence: social security and tax credits

    Thursday, 07 August, 2014

    In the event Scotland becoming an independent country, the Scottish and Westminster governments would have to address two main issues with regard to welfare provision: how to deliver benefits and tax credits in the initial transitional period following independence; and how the two countries' systems should relate to each other in the longer term.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Devolution
    • Family benefits
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit for children resident in other EEA countries

    Friday, 18 July, 2014

    Domestic legislation provides that both Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit cannot normally be paid in respect of children resident abroad. However, under provisions in EU law on social security coordination within the European Economic Area (EEA), Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit may be payable to EEA migrants in the United Kingdom in respect of their dependent children resident in another Member State.

    • Research Briefing
    • Family benefits
    • Immigration
    • The EU
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Government support for childcare under the Labour Government 1997-2010

    Wednesday, 29 January, 2014

    This note gives an overview of support for childcare under the Labour Government 1997-2010.

    • Research Briefing
    • Child care
    • Family benefits
    • Schools
    • Tax
    • Working age benefits

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